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More pictures of the trip
2005-07-15 - 9:21 p.m.
No more stories, but yet more
pictures. These are actually from my own little shoot and toss
camera, which turned out surprisingly well.
This one is for Jake. On Front St. in downtown Hamilton Bermuda,
there was this lovely sidewalk mosaic of a tal ship at sail. It
was uber cool. Let me know if you care for a larger picture.
This is the Anglican Cathedral in Hamilton. There was a street
called Church St, which was true to its name. It was lined with
houses of worship of many varieties.
I don't remember why I took this picture. Let's call it random
coastal view...
On Wednesday we had an outing on a sailboat to go around St. George's
Island and go swimming and snorkeling in Whale Bone Bay. These
Bermudans are as clever with naming places as Wendy's folks are at
naming animals. They found a whale bone in the bay once.
Hence the name...
This is Alan and I swimming in the blue waters.
As we finished swimming, we got back on the boat to continue around the
island. This is Fort St. Catherine and Tobacco Bay beach.
On the top of the hill is one of men's follies, a large hotel that was
not build to withstand Nature's tantrums.
As we headed back to port, I caught this shot of the bow of our ship,
the Norwegian Majesty, docked at Ordinance Island
That afternoon, we took a self-guided walking tour with Jen as
Tour-Guide Barbie around the town of St. George to see the historic
sites.
First stop was St. Peter's Anglican Church, reportedly the oldest
Anglican Church in the Western Hemisphere. This is a shot of the
interior roof structure. They used ship's wheels in place of rose
windows and the effect was lovely. Should have got a shot of the
outside.
Within St. Peter's I spotted a beautiful cupboard dated 1620 with a
cage of lovely turned spindles. gorgeous.
Continuing on our walking tour, after spying the weird flower,
apparently a Passion Flower, from the first set of pictures, we went to
visit the unfinished cathedral.
In the 1800's the folks of St. George's wanted a larger church than St.
Peter's, so work was begun on a cathedral to sit atop the hill to hold
650 people. Unluckily, during its construction, the builder ran
out of money and the church had a bit of in-fighting, so the cathedral
was left half done and set to look like ruins for the rest of its
life. Here we approach it from the road, oddly it is on the
corner of Duke of something or other and Church Folly Lane. :)
Inside looking to the East
The central tower against the clear blue sky
From the North wing, looking South to downtown St. George
Looking out the East window slots
After the church folly, we headed down to the Somers Garden. St.
George was founded by Sir George Somers, who set upon it enroute to
Jamestown in 1609. There is some history about 8 ships setting
out from England and 7 of them being lost in a hurricane off
Bermuda. The 8th was the Sea Venture, who got stuck in the Reef
of the north tip of Bermuda allowing her occupants to swim to shore,
scavange the boat and the local cedar to make two new little ships
(Deliverance and Patience) to continue onto Jamestown. This
construction happened on one of Bermuda's few natural beaches now
called Buildings Bay. Folks didn't like it much in Jamestown, so
they returned to Bermuda to start their own little colony. Sir
George died along the way, so his heart (and entrails) are buried
somewhere near Somers Garden, and his body was stuffed with salt to be
sent back to England for a proper burial of a member of the
peerage. Somers Garden was established in the victorian era by
the then Prince of Wales and planted with various tropical flora.
For some reason Bermuda has lots of chinese Moongates, and one is set
in the east end of the Somers Garden, so here is Alan and I beneath it
being cute
While there were still more historic sites to see, my tour group
mutinied for cold beer and AC. So, we went to Freddie's pub who
had good cheap beer ($2 Boddingtons!) and great AC
Cruise boats are famous for the room stewards turning towels into
creatures. We got a bunny, and I got a picture of Alan with the
Bunny. Muwhahahahaha
Thursday we went out sailing and swimming on a Catamaran. Earlier
pics were posted of us swimming.
Here is a token picture of me and Niece #1 on one of the Ocean Kayaks,
which was fun!
Here is Alan on the Cat.
And both of us together
Friday morning, Alan and I took a walk from our boat to Buildings Bay
to collect sea-glass, and we got a picture of Alan with a 1620 Fot
called Gates Fort, as it is situated looking out over the Channel into
St. George's harbour
And finally, as our Cruise came to an end, we finally remembered to
take a shot of the bow deck of the Majesty. This one is just for
Kymber, and happened to be the last picture in the camera
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